Mallows Bay

The "Ghost Fleet" of Mallows Bay is a reference to the hundreds of ships whose remains still rest in its relatively shallow waters. In total, 230 United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation ships are sunken in the river. More than 100 of the vessels are wooden steamships, part of a fleet built to cross the Atlantic during World War I. During World War II, Bethlehem Steel built a salvage basin to recover metal from the abandoned ships. and was included in the Mallows Bay–Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary on September 3, 2019. ==Gallery==

File:Maryland - Little Falls through Mallows Bay crop.jpg|Aerial photograph 1936. Mallows Bay on Potomac River below Quantico and between Sandy Point and Liverpool Point. (Full image) File:Mallows Bay Park Feb 20, 2017, 11-37 AM edit (32820786620).jpg|Valuable maritime heritage File:Mallows Bay Park Feb 20, 2017, 10-46 AM edit (33138058115).jpg|Almost submerged shipwrecks, February 2017 File:Mallows Bay shoreline.PNG|Aerial view of the shoreline of Mallows Bay looking toward the File:Mallows Bay-Potomac River NMS water quality buoy map.PNG|Overhead photo of Mallows Bay indicating the location of a buoy moored in 2018 that monitors water quality. Shipwrecks also are visible. ==See also==